Category Archives: Culture

A pair of new exhibitions opened this past week at the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. One extends established queries about the nature of objects stored in museums and their relationships to the people they purport to represent. The other makes … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, thanks to my friends Deb and Matt, I had the chance to view Mick Angus’s 2006 film from Marcom Projects, Ooldea. It tells the story of a collaboration between composer Iain Grandage and a group of … Continue reading →

Save the date! On Friday, March 14, 2014 a pair of exhibitions opens at the Anthropology Museum at the University of Queensland. Written on the Body is curated by Waanyi artist Judy Watson and Diana Young. But what I’m really … Continue reading →

Christine Nicholls, researcher and curator at Flinders University, recently published a trio of articles on the website The Conversation (whose tagline is “academic rigor, journalistic flair”; I like that) concerning the problematic nature of the terms “the Dreaming” and “the … Continue reading →

My first reaction when I opened the new volume about Bangarra Dance Theatre, Clan by choreographer Stephen Page and collaborating photographer Greg Barrett (Allen & Unwin, 2013), was surprise at the sheer beauty of what I saw. My second reaction was to … Continue reading →

I bought my iPad about two and a half years ago, not long before my last trip to Australia. It was the perfect solution to hauling half a dozen cheap paperbacks across the globe and discarding them in a series … Continue reading →

Over the past six months, I’ve been a little surprised and very pleased to have encountered a number of books in which much of the prose has been authored by Aboriginal people (and then well translated into English). The common complaint … Continue reading →